On the pattern you'll find several color combinations that would work great with this rectangular string quilt block. It will allow you to use all your scraps and leftover stripes to get a stunning overall zigzag effect!

jeudi 21 septembre 2017

Looking back at early quilts... Nice souvenirs, especially of the passion and impatience I had then in making quilts. It just burned me! I still love to make quilts more than anything else, but I can measure the difference of mood. I'm so much more detached, and much quieter...
That quilt now lives in Tokyo. Still one of my favorite quilts...

mardi 19 septembre 2017

Often, when you want to make a quilt with striped fabrics, you realise that you don't have as much choice as you thought, or that your fabrics are a bit dull. For example, to make the Carnaval Quilt Pattern shown above, the brighter the striped fabrics, the better!

I'm going to show you how you can transform such dull striped fabric as shown above into bright and lively stripes. You don't often need much of each as you want variety, and for example for the Carnaval Quilt Pattern, your new fabric doesn't need to be longer than 32 cm (12 1/2 ").

All you need is your dull fabric, and two other fabrics: a striped fabric with a little more color, and some plain fabric. Cut stripes from the three fabrics, (along the lines). Make the plain fabric stripe extra narrow.

vendredi 15 septembre 2017

jeudi 14 septembre 2017

Back to school! It was time to make a gym bag for my grandson's first day at school! He wanted a "vehicle", so I chose a free design on the internet. It was my first try with Soluvlies, a water-soluble stabiliser you can put behind the appliqué to make the sewing easier.

If you haven't heard about the Bosna Quilts, run to their site, and learn about the adventure, now running for more than 20 years. The quilts are designed by LuciaLienhard-Giesinger and freely quilted by former refugees from Bosnia.